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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786389903321

Titolo

Classics in translation . Volume 2 Latin literature / / editors, Paul MacKendrick, Herbert M. Howe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1980

©1952

ISBN

0-299-80899-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 436 pages) : maps (on lining papers)

Collana

Classics in Translation

Altri autori (Persone)

MacKendrickPaul Lachlan <1914-1998.>

HoweHerbert M <1912-2010.> (Herbert Marshall)

Disciplina

880.08

Soggetti

Classical literature

Latin literature

English literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in print c1952.

Nota di contenuto

Roman culture: an essay -- The haunted house of Plautus -- The woman from Andros of Terence -- Titus Lucretius Carus on the nature of things -- Selections from Sallust -- Selections from the speeches of Cicero -- Selections from Cicero's philosophical works -- Selections from the poems of Catullus -- Selections from the Georgics of Vergil -- Selections from the Aeneid of Vergil -- Selections from the Odes of Horace -- Selections from Ovid -- Selections from Livy's History of Rome -- The deeds of Deified Augustus -- Seneca's Medea -- Selections from the Satyricon of Petronius -- Selections from Quintilian's The training of the oraror -- Selected letters of the younger Pliny -- Selections from Tacitus -- Selections from the Sixth satire of Juvenal -- Selections from the Deified Julius of Suetonius.

Sommario/riassunto

Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin.